Research Article

Maladaptive Plasticity in Aphasia: Brain Activation Maps Underlying Verb Retrieval Errors

Table 4

Participants 1, 2, and 3: significantly activated areas associated with successful verb naming (adapted from Durand [17]).

Left hemisphereRight hemisphere
RegionBAResults SPM-scoreCluster sizeRegionBAResults SPM-scoreCluster size

Participant 1Middle frontal gyrus6−380624.07608Superior frontal gyrus6102644.54608
Precentral gyrus4−56−8504.64129Precentral gyrus666−12404.21506
Precentral gyrus4−16−28724.3111Middle frontal gyrus628−6543.98153
Pons−2−22−364.8757Superior temporal gyrus2270−36124.0164
Middle temporal gyrus2170−3243.6464

Participant 2Middle occipital gyrus18−48−76−87.133404Middle frontal gyrus62−2706.33637
Lingual gyrus18−10−72−86.143404Cerebellum, tuber50−56−365.8483
Superior parietal lobule7−6−66604.23116Fusiform gyrus3745−56−243.983
Precuneus7−15−72453.88116Cerebellum, inferior semilunar lobule12−70−484.2974
Superior temporal gyrus225414−64.6854
Superior frontal gyrus9252403.9122
Middle temporal gyrus2166−5023.822

Participant 3Inferior frontal gyrus45−5422186.052028Sulcus callosomarginalis81018485.821858
Inferior frontal gyrus44−4010205.842028Middle frontal gyrus8632364.751858
Middle frontal gyrus6−4612485.252028Middle frontal gyrus83620483.66266
Middle frontal gyrus6−2214444.671858Caudate nucleus18−20224.17205
Middle frontal gyrus6−2848184.68449Inferior temporal gyrus3748−56−144.0717
Superior frontal gyrus9−850303.75449
Superior parietal lobule7−36−72465.17167